Gunshot wound “C,” however, entered Zongo’s back, near the right armpit, exiting the front of his chest near his right nipple, she said.

The path of the final wound was a graze traveling from the back to the front of Zongo’s right arm.

The testimony is potentially highly damaging to Conroy’s claims of self-defense.

Conroy had been at the warehouse in May 2003, disguised in a postal uniform for a raid on a CD/DVD-bootleg operation.

Zongo was at the warehouse repairing African artifacts in his third-floor workshop. Conroy insists that when he shouted to Zongo that he was a cop, Zongo “came at him,” and the two struggled over the cop’s gun.

That account was bolstered yesterday when defense lawyer Stuart London cross-examined a prosecution witness, Police Officer Nicholas Tagliamonti, the first cop to reach Conroy after the shooting.

Tagliamonti said Conroy was disheveled, pale, and had a red bruise across the ridge of his nose – all supportive of Conroy’s claims of a struggle with Zongo.